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extrapose

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[ek-struh-pohz] / ˌɛk strəˈpoʊz /

verb (used with object)

Linguistics.
extraposed, extraposing

  1. to shift (a syntactic construction) to the end of a sentence.

Etymology

Origin of extrapose

Back formation from extraposition

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